ABC News has added a section of video and audio newsclips to its news service at the GO Network, InfoSeek Corporation's Internet portal. Users can see and listen to national headline news, such as a clip from Warren Beatty's speech at an awards dinner Wednesday night (sounding rather presidential). They can also search for additional video files using Videosearch, by Virage. Beatty as a search...

Started in 1996, the EarthCam company was one of the first corporations to begin delivering services designed to assist those persons seeking to set up the necessary infrastructure to send live images across the globe. This free site is a helpful way to take a peek at literally thousands of places (including some rather unusual ones) around the world. Visitors will want to begin by exploring some...

EarthCam for Kids lets users search or browse to find web cams located around the world. Arranged by subject, students can locate cameras that are viewing seismographs, mountains, rivers, space, labs, as well as other subjects. Each link brings up the remote camera letting users see what's going on or, as in several cases, what's not going on.

Based at Santa Clara University, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is dedicated to creating and sustaining meaningful research and dialogue on ethical issues in critical areas of American life, such as bioethics and character education. Along with their important publications, they have also made some other nice resources available on their website. One resource is the "Heard on Campus"...

Created as a vehicle for writers and publishers to distribute their recorded work directly to the public, this site allows visitors to sample a wide variety of writers's works, as read by themselves. These selections are organized into a number of channels: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Biography, Poetry, Self-Help, and Loudmouth (reader-submitted recordings). Most of the sections are quite deep, with the...

A cooperative effort from three companies, Parliament Live allows users to view a live broadcast of the UK Parliament (when in session) and keyword search archived video footage. A link to the live broadcast is provided on the main page and may be viewed in RealPlayer or Windows Media Player format. The video search engine uses the Virage platform and may be searched by keyword and party, event,...

While there are many ways to parse out the information found within the periodic table of elements, the University of Nottingham has gone above and beyond with their own novel version. Their version happens to have a short video about each element, and visitors will find each short clip interesting, informative, and fun. Visitors can click on each element as they wish, and they can also learn...

VADS, part of the UK Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS), was established to create a searchable, online archive of digital resources for use by the visual arts community, especially those in higher education, and "to establish and promote good practice in the creation, management and preservation of digital resources through an advisory, training and publications programme." Recently...